The Houston Astros fire their manager and GM after they were punished for cheating during the team's World Series title-winning season
Astros manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow were suspended without pay for one season following the league's investigation into the cheating scheme, MLB Commissioner Robert D. Manfred Jr., announced earlier. The suspensions would have lasted through the 2020 World Series and were among a series of MLB penalties from the sign-stealing probe.The team must still forfeit its regular first- and second-round selections in 2020 and 2021 drafts and pay a $5 million fine.
A person in the dugout would notify players in the dugout or signal the sign sequence to a runner on second base. That runner would decipher the catcher's sign, and signal to the batter from second base, the investigation found. On occasions, employees in the replay review room communicated the sign sequence with text messages sent to a staff member on the bench with a smart phone -- or, in other instances, to a cell phone nearby, the investigation found.
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